Education And Medicaid Spending Still At Issue In Budget Negotiations

WUNC | By Will Michaels,

Frank Stasio

Published July 2, 2014 at 12:55 PM EDT

A Legislature update with WUNC reporters Jorge Valencia and Reema Khrais

It’s a new fiscal year as of Tuesday, but the legislature has yet to reach an agreement on budget adjustments.

The House and Senate are still at odds over how to spend money on education and Medicaid.

Lawmakers are also trying to sort out a coal ash regulation bill, public records rules for charter schools, and higher penalties for prison inmates who get a hold of cell phones.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC capitol reporter Jorge Valencia and WUNC education policy reporter Reema Khrais about what the legislature has left on the table before the short session ends.

Will Michaels

Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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